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China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one's every move can be monitored with cutting-edge technology. Video: Clément Bürge/WSJ; Image: DeepGlint
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Beijing: Chinese authorities are collecting DNA samples, fingerprints and other biometric data of millions of people in the country's far western Xinjiang region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday.
Officials are also building a database of eye scans and blood types of everyone aged between 12 and 65 in the region, adding to controls in a place some experts called an "open-air prison", the Guardian reported.
The data can be used for "surveillance of persons because of ethnicity, religion, opinion or other protected exercise of rights like free speech", Human Rights Watch said.
Xinjiang has long been subject to tight

By Ben Blanchard | BEIJING
Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding that Beijing should be extremely concerned about it.
China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight for militants there, having travelled illegally via Southeast Asia and Turkey.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of a Chinese hostage in 2015, highlighting China's concern about Uighurs it says are fighting in the Middle East.
Hundreds of people